Vicki Covington, Author . Univ. of Alabama $29.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8173-1159-9
If Profound Lite were a literary category, Covington's collection of essays would be a standard-bearer. In an era in which women—clearly her intended readers—barely have time for bathroom breaks, there's a place for two- to three-
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Vicki Covington, Author Ivy Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0798-3
Honey Shugart, an Alabamian widow who leads a satisfying if predictable life, faces the death of her sister and the threatened re-zoning and sale of her former family homestead. ``A quiet, satisfying tale about the vitality of life, love and choices
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Vicki Covington, Author Simon & Schuster $17.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66055-0
Eschewing anger, hostility and resentment, Covington writes a thoroughly credible, appealing story of an adopted teenager's coming to terms with her birth and adoptive parents. Whitney Gaines's adoptive father Cal is a liberal-minded minister in...
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Vicki Covington, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (206p) ISBN 978-0-671-68634-5
The author follows the well-received Gathering Home with a quiet, satisfying tale about the vitality of life, love and choices in the ``golden years.'' Alabamian Honey Shugart's widowhood has been far more satisfying, if predictable, than her...
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Vicki Covington, Author Simon & Schuster $19.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74345-1
Covington ( Gathering Home ) uses a shared crisis to dramatize forgiveness in this multifaceted, absorbing tale, set in an Alabama mining town in December 1941. Pearl Harbor doesn't yet mean much to just-married 19-year-old Keller Hayes--he's far...
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Vicki Covington, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (300p) ISBN 978-0-684-81111-6
Her unusual ability to depict Southerners with discerning candor as well as sympathetic understanding has distinguished Covington's three previous, praised novels (Gathering Home, et al.). Here, her touch is not as sure, as her story centers on the...
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